The Doctor degraded, or, The reward of deceit being an account of the right perfidious and perjury'd Titus Oates, who recieved [sic] sentence at the Kings-Bench-Bar, at Westminster the 16th day of May, 1685. 1685 Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A36193 Wing D1760 ESTC R1104 12264975 ocm 12264975 57996 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A36193) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 57996) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 181:6) The Doctor degraded, or, The reward of deceit being an account of the right perfidious and perjury'd Titus Oates, who recieved [sic] sentence at the Kings-Bench-Bar, at Westminster the 16th day of May, 1685. England and Wales. Court of King's Bench. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed by George Groom ..., London : 1685. Partially in verse. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Oates, Titus, 1649-1705 -- Trials, litigation, etc. Popish Plot, 1678. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. 2008-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-11 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion The Doctor Degraded ; Or The REWARD of DECEIT : Being an Account of the Right Perfidious , and Perjury'd TITVS OATES ; Who Recieved Sentence at the Kings-Bench-Bar , at Westminster the 16th day of May , 1685. ON Saturday the 16th Day of May 1685. Titus Oates , being then brought to the Kings-Bench-Bar , Westminster , about a 11 of the Clock by a strong Guard , My Lord Chief Justice and others of his Brethren being on the Bench , was called ; the Attorney General , craved Judgement of the Court against Titus Oates , for his Perjuries ; Oates craved time till Monday , but it was denied him ; then the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice proceeded to declare the Heinousness of his Crime . saying , It was formerly , by the Law of this Land , punishable with Death . And after that , being somewhat moderated , the Penalty was , to have the Parties Tongue cut out . And being yet farther taken into Consideration , the Punishment was left to the discretion of the Court. So they Proceeded not to Life or Member , notwithstanding his Lordship said he had consulted with all the Judges of England , and that they were unanimously of opinion , that the power was in the Court to Proceed to any Sentence under that restriction ; and having in a most Emphatical Speech , from point to point , related the matter at large , his Lordship left the Pronounciation of the Sentence to Judge Withens , who told the Prisoner , that his Nature was Compassionate , and that he delighted not in passing Sentence on his fellow HERE STAND I FOR PERJURY depiction of Titus Oates in the pillory Creatures ; yet in case of such a Crime , he must confess he did it without remorse , and having further expressed himself in detestation of the Prisoners offence , and Eloquently discoursed it at large , he was pleased to Pronounce the following Sentence , viz. Fined on each Indictment 1000 Marks . That on Munday the 18th of this Instant he walk about Westminster Hall , with a Paper upon his Forehead , mentioning his Crime : And afterwards stripp'd of his Canonical Habit , Stand upon and in the Pillory before the Hall Gate between the hours of 11 and One , for the space of an hour to stand . Tuesday the 19th . at the Royal Exchange . Wednesday the 20th . to be Whip'd from Aldgate to Newgate . Friday the 22d . from Newgate to Tyburn . Aug. the 9th to stand at Westminster . August , the 10th at Charing-Cross . August the 11th at Temple-Bar . September the 2d at the Royal Exchange . Aprill the 24th 1686. to stand in the Pillory at Tyburn , facing the Gallows . To lie in Gaol during Life . And to stand Annually in the Pillory , August the 9th . at Westminster . August the 10th at Charing-Cross . August the 11th at Temple-Bar . September , the 2d at the Royal Exchange . O Cruel Fate ! why art thou thus unkind , So wavering and unconstant in thy Mind , To turn ( like weather-Cocks ) with every Wind ? Did'st thou not once make Oates thy Favourite , Thy only Darling , and thy dear Delight ? And mounted him upon thy Wings so high , That he could almost touch the very Skie , And now must Oates stand in the Pillory ? There to be Battered so with Rotten Eggs , Both on the Face , the Body and the Legs , That he will wish himself in Hell for Ease , And Beg as Beggars do for Bread and Cheese , That Oates might not be Thresh'd as Men do Pease . And must he too ( when once he has stood there ) Be sent to Ride upon the Three-Leg'd-Mare ? Zouns what 's the meaning of it with a Pox ? Is that the way to pay his Christmas-Box ? Was he not once the Saviour of the Nation , And must he be Contemn'd and out of Fashion ? Call'd Perjur'd Rogue and slighted be by all , And toss'd about just like a Tennis-Ball . What if he did Forswear himself a little , Must his sweet Bum be rubb'd thus with a Nettle ? O fie ! 'T is not well done to Rob the Spittle . But 't is in vain I see to Mourn for Oates , For if we Roar until we split our Throats , We cannot help the poor distressed thing ; No hopes to get a Pardon of the King , Therefore he must endure his Suffering . Indeed ( if to Lament would do him good ) Then we would Weep that's to be understood : But , my beloved Brethren in the Lord , That cannot keep him from a Hempen-Cord , Or from his peeping through a Two-inch-Board . And so 't is needless that we Vex or Fret , God's holy Will be done , we must Submit . However let poor Oates be Brisk and Bonny ( Long as he Lives ) he shall not want for Money , For to his Hive we 'll bring both Wax and Honey . Yet ( if he should be Hang'd and Die that way ) Oates will spring up again at Judgment Day , Altho there will not be a bit of Hay . But 't is a great Disgrace that O brave Oates ( The Rampant Doctor of Religious Plots ) Is not ( in state ) Promoted up on High ; The just Reward of bloudy Perjury . Yet he 's no Coward , fearing to be Halter'd , Unless of late his Courage should be Alter'd : Fight Dog , fight Bear , he values not a Fig , He always was and e'er will be a Whigg , And stand up for the Cause we know full well , Tho he were sure almost to go to Hell. Therefore if he be Hang'd , and in a Cart Carried to Tyburn , what cares he a Fart , At last the Dearest Friends of all must Part. And now Beloved Brother Oates adieu , Altho this story looks a little Blue , Yet what I Wrote of thee is very True. LONDON , Printed by George Groom , at the Sign of the Blue-Ball in Thames-street , over against Baynard's-Castle . 1685